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From: "Bryn M. Reeves" <bmr@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Adding a disk to expand an existing logical volume
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 18:05:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BF41A57.5010507@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BF415FE.5060806@alteeve.com>

On 05/19/2010 05:46 PM, Digimer wrote:
> On 10-05-19 12:37 PM, kevin wrote:
>>
>>> If I were you, I would not bother with partition(s). I will add the
>>> whole disk to LVM.
>>
>>
>> I intend for the entire disk to be used -- so I should just skip the fdisk
>> step?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> Kevin
>> http://blog.stardothosting.com
> 
> Unless Malahal knows something I don't (which is always possible), then 
> you still need to create a single partition that consumes the whole disk 
> and then assign that to you VG.
> 

Running pvcreate on a whole disk works just fine.

Regards,
Bryn.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-19 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-19 15:43 [linux-lvm] Adding a disk to expand an existing logical volume kevin
2010-05-19 15:58 ` Digimer
2010-05-19 16:09   ` kevin
2010-05-19 16:28     ` Digimer
2010-05-19 16:24   ` Michael Guntsche
2010-05-19 22:28     ` Ron Johnson
2010-05-20  5:24       ` Luca Berra
2010-05-20 11:21       ` Bryn M. Reeves
2010-05-19 16:26   ` Malahal Naineni
2010-05-19 16:37     ` kevin
2010-05-19 16:46       ` Digimer
2010-05-19 17:05         ` Bryn M. Reeves [this message]
2010-05-19 16:51       ` Stuart D. Gathman
2010-05-19 16:57         ` Digimer
2010-05-19 17:07           ` kevin
2010-05-19 17:09           ` kevin
2010-05-19 17:28             ` Richard Shaw
2010-05-19 17:35             ` Ray Morris
2010-05-19 18:25               ` Digimer
2010-05-19 17:23           ` Ray Morris
2010-05-19 19:34             ` Stuart D. Gathman
2010-05-28 23:16               ` Ray Morris
2010-05-19 17:03       ` Bryn M. Reeves
2010-05-19 15:58 ` Richard Jerrido
2010-05-19 16:12   ` kevin
2010-05-19 16:46 ` Stuart D. Gathman

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